Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the co-director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive. So I created a bot (@icymilaw.org) and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content while showing off what one can do with sufficiently open protocols. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- Tim Walz eulogizes slain lawmaker as a historic Minnesotan — and friend 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥After a hug with Kamala Harris, Gov. Tim Walz eulogized slain state Rep. Melissa Hortman as “the most consequential speaker in Minnesota history.”
- How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
- How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork
- US sees spate of arrests of civilians impersonating Ice officers Experts say trend of agents detaining people while masking and wearing plainclothes increases risk ...
- The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root – among career staffers and new political appointees alike.
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- The Week Ahead 🔥🔥🔥June 29, 2025 ...
- BREAKING: Senate Budget Bill Will Leave 11.8 Million Uninsured and add 3.9 Trillion to Debt 🔥🔥Good evening, everyone.
- How the reconciliation bill would change America 🔥An assault on the poor, on freedom and the future ...
- This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 161. … The Senate voted 51-49 to advance the budget reconciliation bill to the floor, which is expected to happen early this week.
- June 29, 2025 There are four political stories people should know about tonight.
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- I-MED now asking to use patients' scans to train AI — after already handing over 100,000s of chest x-rays without consent 🔥🔥🔥A law firm is investigating launching a class action against Australia's largest radiology provider, which Crikey revealed had provided 100,000s of scans to train AI without patient permission.
- Exclusive: Trump plans executive orders to power AI growth in race with China 🔥The Trump administration is readying a package of executive actions aimed at boosting energy supply to power the U.S. expansion of artificial intelligence, according to four sources familiar with the planning.
- The Mirage of Artificial Intelligence Terms of Use Restrictions 🔥Artificial intelligence (AI) model creators commonly attach restrictive terms of use to both their models and their outputs. These terms typically prohibit acti ...
- Five Real-World Failures Expose Need for Effective Detection of AI-Generated Media | TechPolicy.Press The costs of AI detection failures will be felt in the collapse of trust and the manipulation of public discourse, writes shirin anlen from WITNESS.
- Original post on mastodon.social
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
- NetChoice and Telecom Law's First Amendment† 🔥🔥Over the past quarter-century, industrial speech law and policy have converged on novel First Amendment questions about the regulation of the dominant Internet ...
- The Inherent Powers of Federal Courts and the Structural Constitution 🔥The Supreme Court has long defined "inherent powers" as those which "cannot be dispensed with . . . because they are necessary to the exercise of ...
- The Persistence and Uncertain Future of the Public Interest Class Action Cases against government defendants for large-scale injunctive relief often turn on the class certification decision. From the modern class action’s early days ...
- Interpreting the Ambiguities of Section 230 As evidenced by the confusion expressed by multiple Justices in last Term’s Gonzalez v. Google, there is little consensus as to the scope of Section 230, the la ...
- The Passthrough Entity Tax Scandal More than three dozen states have enacted laws since 2018 that are designed to provide passthrough entity owners with an unlimited federal tax deduction for sta ...
AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- The Mirage of Artificial Intelligence Terms of Use Restrictions 🔥🔥🔥🔥Artificial intelligence (AI) model creators commonly attach restrictive terms of use to both their models and their outputs. These terms typically prohibit acti ...
- Model Organisms for Emergent Misalignment 🔥Recent work discovered Emergent Misalignment (EM): fine-tuning large language models on narrowly harmful datasets can lead them to become broadly misaligned. A survey of experts prior to publication r...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† 🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
- Prover Agent: An Agent-based Framework for Formal Mathematical Proofs We present Prover Agent, a novel AI agent for automated theorem proving that integrates large language models (LLMs) with a formal proof assistant, Lean. Prover Agent coordinates an informal reasoning...
- The Singapore Consensus on Global AI Safety Research Priorities† Rapidly improving AI capabilities and autonomy hold significant promise of transformation, but are also driving vigorous debate on how to ensure that AI is safe, i.e., trustworthy, reliable, and secur...
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social)
- Leah Litman (@leahlitman.bsky.social)
- Barred and Boujee and NEWLYWED aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Li (李之樸) (@mcpli.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Dan Izzo (@izzos.us) (promoted)
- Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Siva (@sivav.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Burbach (@dburbach.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Dunman (@joedunman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bad Popehat With Evil Intentions (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adil Haque (@adhaque.bsky.social) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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